Mickey Matthews
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Mickey Matthews
Michael Chester "Mickey" Matthewswas the fifth head football coach at James Madison University, serving from 1999 until 2013. During Matthews's tenure, James Madison achieved a Division I-AA national football championship in 2004. His overall coaching record at JMU was 109-71...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth8 November 1953
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Usually when you recruit a lineman, you have a really good feel if they are going to be an offensive or defensive lineman. Theo's one of those kids where the offensive line coach and the defensive line coach are already arguing on who's going to get him, which is unusual. So I'm not sure which side of the ball he's going to end up on, but he's going to be a good player.
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We always start at Page 1. Everyone that?s returning knew exactly what to do and practiced really well. And everyone?s that?s new was struggling, to put it mildly.
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When people are loading up on us, we have to have the ability to throw the ball. We cant let people put eight or nine people in the box and expect to run the ball.